Dubai: A cleaner, who used to take money from bank employees to pay for their parking at work, has been accused of tampering with Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) parking tickets using snickered numbers.

An RTA parking inspector was said to have suspected a parking ticket placed on the dashboard of a car in front of the bank in Naif in August and upon inspecting the system and the ticket’s details, he realised that it had been forged.

The inspector instantly called the police and informed them about the forged ticket.

According to the report, when a policeman went to the bank to inquire about the car owner who had the forged parking ticket on the dashboard, it was discovered that the vehicle belonged to an Emirati woman.

The woman immediately told the policeman that she had paid Dh26 to a Bangladeshi cleaner, just like many other bank employees, to purchase a seven-hour parking ticket and post it on her dashboard.

The policeman then called the 30-year-old worker and confronted him with the woman’s claims. He admitted that he had put the ticket on the dashboard. The parking ticket was found to have been tampered with as the original timing had been covered with snickered numbers.

Prosecutors accused the Bangladeshi cleaner of forging RTA parking tickets and using them.

The suspect pleaded guilty and admitted that he had forged RTA tickets when he showed up before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Monday.

The Emirati woman told prosecutors that she and her colleagues always paid money to the suspect to place parking tickets on their cars.

“On that day, I gave the suspect Dh26 to pay for my seven-hour parking while I was inside my office. Around 11am, a policeman walked into the bank and asked about the owner of the car that had my number plate … I told him that I drove that car. Then he told me that the parking ticket on my car had been forged … I explained to him that I had paid the money to the cleaner to put the tickets. When I asked him how had the forgery happened, he took out the ticket from his pocket and showed me that the numbers had been tampered with snickered numbers,” she testified to prosecutors.

The RTA inspector testified to prosecutor that the forged ticket he had discovered at 10am only covered the parking time of an hour and not three hours as it was supposed to expire at 12.22pm (as per the forged timings on the forged ticket).

The policeman told prosecutors that the suspect was confused and remained silent once they confronted him with the findings.

The trial continues.